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Bijoy H. Boruah

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Bijoy H. Boruah

Guest Professor, Humanlttes and Soctal Sctences

  • BA: Dibrugarh University, India, 1971
  • MA: Banaras Hindu University, India, 1973
  • M.Litt.: University of Oxford, U.K., 1979
  • PhD: University of Guelph, Canada 1984



  • Selected Publications

    1. ‘Technoscience and the Transhumanist Techno-cultural Imaginary,” in Roadmap for Humanities and Social Sciences in STEM Higher Education, edited by Sayantan Mondal, Springer Nature Singapore, 2024 (forthcoming).

    2. 'Attitudes Towards the World and Finding The Soul: An Interpretation of What Being Religious Means For Wittgenstein,' in K. C. Gupta (ed.), Wittgensteinian Realms of Religious Beliefs, Values and Metaphysics, (Mississauga, Ontario: Occam Academic Press, 2020), pp. 1-8.

    3. 'Sub Specie Aeternitatis: The World of the Good Life,' in K C Gupta (ed), Recent Responses in Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Life and Language, (Mississauga, Ontario: Occam Academic Press, 2020), pp. 171-190.

    4. "Dharma" and "Dhyana," entries in Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century, edited by Rukmini Bhaya Nair & Peter Ronald deSousa (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 35-38.

    5. 'Reality and Intelligibility,' in Partha Ghose (ed), Tagore, Einstein and the Nature of Reality: Literary and Philosophical Dimensions (London & New York: Routledge, 2019).

    6. "On Being No One: The Idea of a Perspectiveless Self," in Kuntala Bhattacharya, Madhucchanda Sen, Smita Sirker (eds), Mind and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary haring, Volume 1, (New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2019), pp. 155-166.

    7. 'The Impersonal Subjectivity of Aesthetic Emotion,' in Arindam Chakraborti (ed), Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 127-148.

  • Work Experience

    • Guest Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (May 2024 – Present)

    • Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India (2022 – 2021 - May 2024)

    • Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (2018 – 2021)

    • Professor of Philosophy , Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi (2010 – 2018)

Research Interests

  • ● Philosophy of Mind
  • ● Philosophical Aesthetics
  • ● History of Modern Western Philosophy
  • ● Ethics and Value Theory
  • ● Metaphysics of the Self
  • ● Technoscience and Transhumanism
  • ● Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
  • ● Artificial Intelligence and Human Agency